minor muppetz
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Oscar should like onions. They are disgusting, and grouches would like disgusting foods.
His Mexican counterpart, Pancho, certainly does, and even has his own song about it (borrowed from Cookie Monster, that is). . . .Oscar should like onions. They are disgusting, and grouches would like disgusting foods.
For that very reason, when I was younger and I'd sing along to the song, I would alter the lyrics of the refrain from, "Tell us about the boy from New York City" to "Sesame Street sits in New York City."I noticed, after hearing the song "The Boy from New York City" by The Manhattan Transfer, a familiar note sequence reminds me of the beginning of the original theme to Sesame Street. The note sequence in both those songs sound familiar..
Oh. yes, I've known that. As I've pointed out before, the first season Cookie Monster puppet and the modified version (that many associate with debuting in season 3) respectively appeared in a street scene and a previously taped insert in episode 260 (from season 2). I just found that strange because the inserts are taped prior to the production of the episode's scenes, and they could've just easily used the newer Cookie Monster puppet in the street scene, since that puppet had already been in existence in that "peppermint sticks" segment with Ernie and Farley. There was also another season 2 segment that employed the newly rebuilt Cookie Monster puppet that also featured Ernie. It was when Ernie was using a scale to measure the weights of two stacks of cookies. I believe that segment had a light purple background and was taped the same day as the segment with the peppermint sticks, as well as the segment with the AM family sorting into different groups.Well, the street scenes and inserts are shot at different times.
By that point, I'm guessing their policy was in place about showing pipe smoking onscreen, so those got discontinued because Mr. Chatterly has a pipe in them (same reason I'm guessing they've been cut from the HBO Max versions).Another of those odd things is how the early Alphabet Chat segments debuted in the 1970s, then we got a couple more in the 1990s. By then they stopped airing the former ones (most likely due to the pipe, which seems to be him actually smoking, in constraint to Alistair Cookie having a pipe to look classy and eat). But then they only did two new Alphabet Chat segments in the 1990s, in addition to giving Mr. Chatterly a street appearance.